business as usual

idiom

—used to say that something is working or continuing in the normal or usual way

Much of the town lost electricity in the storm, but for people with generators it was business as usual.

As the election nears, both political parties continue to blame each other for all the city's problems. In other words, it's business as usual.

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What’s the right balance between acknowledging everything that’s going on and maintaining business as usual? —

Hbr Editors, Harvard Business Review, 31 Oct. 2024 It could be argued that Apple effectively adopting a custom version of one of these LLMs to fill out China’s version of Apple Intelligence represents business as usual. —

Andrew Williams, WIRED, 26 Oct. 2024 Nate Darnell, co-owner of Darnell Farms, is eager to get things back on track but feels conflicted about advertising business as usual. —

J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2024 Musically speaking, the dance and electronic music scenes today look more or less like business as usual. —

Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for business as usual

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